Mining Incidents

Roughrider Ranch: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jeff Seward
Spearfish, Butte County, SD  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3901650

Roughrider Ranch has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $1K in penalties since 2020, with $251 outstanding.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
—
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
12
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,100
proposed penalties
$849
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $251 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
12
inspections on record
110
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 110 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Roughrider Ranch has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $251 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$849
paid to date
$251
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-14.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
8.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
8.3%
reasonably likely or greater
75.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 50.0% low, 50.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Roughrider Construction, LLC 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 1
2024 2
2023 2
2022 3
2021 2
2020 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Roughrider Ranch sits in Butte County, South Dakota, where the Census mining category is 5.5% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Butte County, South Dakota · Population 10,538
5.5%
Mining share of county employment
$67,692
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 600 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 27 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 400 1 0 2500.0
2025 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 1 0
2024 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
Show 16 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 600 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 495 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 980 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,040 3 0 2884.6
2023 Q2 1,065 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 467 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 967 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,159 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,093 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 354 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,083 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,217 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,070 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 804 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 611 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,340 3 0 2238.8

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.